We have started to watch Voyager. I only ever watched it once, as it aired. It is so awful. We aren’t even watching it with full attention, more as just background while doing something else like arts and crafts, but we have to turn it off sometimes because it is so bad. And yet we have friends who rate it highly, higher than fucking DS9!

We have started to watch Voyager. I only ever watched it once, as it aired. It is so awful. We aren’t even watching it with full attention, more as just background while doing something else like arts and crafts, but we have to turn it off sometimes because it is so bad. And yet we have friends who rate it highly, higher than fucking DS9!

Doctor-centric episodes tend to be better—the one where he created a holographic family, I recall, was pretty good—but the whole damned series was pancake flat. It wasn't a problem of concept—not all that different from TOS—but just crappy scripts and dull characters.

We have started to watch Voyager. I only ever watched it once, as it aired. It is so awful. We aren’t even watching it with full attention, more as just background while doing something else like arts and crafts, but we have to turn it off sometimes because it is so bad. And yet we have friends who rate it highly, higher than fucking DS9!

Doctor-centric episodes tend to be better—the one where he created a holographic family, I recall, was pretty good—but the whole damned series was pancake flat. It wasn't a problem of concept—not all that different from TOS—but just crappy scripts and dull characters.

The amount of technobabble is higher than any other series I think, to the point where I wondered if Janeway was supposed to have an engineering background.

I warmed to it a bit when I picked up those multi-series dvd sets that focused on a theme. It cherry picked the best episodes of the series which made it seem kinda good. Then I watched the whole thing and I realized it was... not... good.

We have started to watch Voyager. I only ever watched it once, as it aired. It is so awful. We aren’t even watching it with full attention, more as just background while doing something else like arts and crafts, but we have to turn it off sometimes because it is so bad. And yet we have friends who rate it highly, higher than fucking DS9!

Doctor-centric episodes tend to be better—the one where he created a holographic family, I recall, was pretty good—but the whole damned series was pancake flat. It wasn't a problem of concept—not all that different from TOS—but just crappy scripts and dull characters.

The amount of technobabble is higher than any other series I think, to the point where I wondered if Janeway was supposed to have an engineering background.

If you're right about the technobabble part, it speaks to a problem shared by succeeding series—Enterprise and Discovery—which is fan-servicing. Star Trek goes bad when it caters to expert fans to the exclusion of others.

We have started to watch Voyager. I only ever watched it once, as it aired. It is so awful. We aren’t even watching it with full attention, more as just background while doing something else like arts and crafts, but we have to turn it off sometimes because it is so bad. And yet we have friends who rate it highly, higher than fucking DS9!

Doctor-centric episodes tend to be better—the one where he created a holographic family, I recall, was pretty good—but the whole damned series was pancake flat. It wasn't a problem of concept—not all that different from TOS—but just crappy scripts and dull characters.

The amount of technobabble is higher than any other series I think, to the point where I wondered if Janeway was supposed to have an engineering background.

If you're right about the technobabble part, it speaks to a problem shared by succeeding series—Enterprise and Discovery—which is fan-servicing. Star Trek goes bad when it caters to expert fans to the exclusion of others.

I still haven’t watched Discovery, but Enterprise is the only Trek I gave up on.

I still haven’t watched Discovery, but Enterprise is the only Trek I gave up on.

A few years ago, I went back and watched all of Enterprise on Netflix. Some things were better than I remembered, but it was mostly really dull and meandering. The last season was dedicated to filling in potholes that hardcore fans burned for (e.g., why do Klingons look different in TOS?). Discovery is actually worse. We watched every episode because B wanted to stick it out, but I honestly and truly don't care about a single character. As Boddington said a couple months ago, it just doesn't feel like Star Trek. There's zero hope or wonder to it, even when it tries, just meanness and darkness. It might be decent sci-fi if it weren't tied to Star Trek—maybe—but it is and that works against it.

I never watched the quantum leap Star Trek it looked, and I dont want to sound superficial, boring. Tried Voyager but found that boring for sure and couldnt care less about any of the characters. DS9 was the pinnacle and I dont think they will ever be that good again. Sisco was just a powerful character and the supporting cast/crew were all excellent.